Mark Slater

This is Trump bombing protestors with shit levels of effort.

Look at the detail on that. No-one’s putting those hours in for cheap political points on social media in 2026, especially the withered husk of the Tory party.

You’re actually comparing those dolts to C19th satirical cartoonists? The politics and bigotry may be same, but it’s a different milieu.

Nope, Hegseth should be put on trial.

At least he’s not a transphobe.

Used to like him, but his fury and bluster it seems amount to much the same edgelord shit as Jimmy Carr, Ricky Gervais or Dave Chappelle, just in an Australian accent.

Before AI, this nonsense would have been too much effort. AI is enabling this sort of easy to make political arse gravy. The weakest, most base shit that comes into their heads can be instantly realised by AI and pushed out on social media before anyone realises how bad it makes them look.

Looks like it to me. If there were a half decent art director or production designer, or even just the editor, even if it were the work of an actual artist, I think you’d get those inconsistencies corrected.

It’s shoddy on multiple levels.

That would be the Jim Jeffries that was booked to play the Riyadh comedy festival then pissed on his own chips by admitting his sense of decency had a specific dollar price.

Yep - it’s a shit film. Offensively so in fact.

Get your daughter to do it. Parenthood has it’s perks.

We have a clear winner.

I love how such a big, historically and intellectually important institution like the British Library has gone completely all in on genre literature.

No messing about.

That didn’t take long!

I didn’t have any languages in mind - I was commenting on the aesthetic quality and poor layout of your ‘website’. 🤷🏻‍♂️

It’s extremely low quality. As has been commented elsewhere, virtually any human designed template would look considerably better. This looks like a placeholder website.

At a glance - the quality is extremely poor.

A pointing finger over the word ‘No’

My last PC went totally the other way. Don’t play games on it, so went small form factor - probably has little more than a small fan on it. Still also got an Alienware Alpha, early Steam machine, same thing - two tiny fans, one on the CPU, one on the GPU.

Once you’ve spotted something like that and it becomes a niggle, you’re just not going to be able to avoid it flagging your brain and it bugging you from then on. I think there was something else going on here though alongside, maybe something with the grain and the depth of the blacks.

Yep - I know it’s set more 1930s re: Universal Monsters, but given they decided (probably correctly) not to go B&W, then 1940s for early colour.

It’s use here feels almost sepia adjacent.

I know the orange/teal thing is a personal bugbear of yours, but I personally particularly liked the colour grading on ‘The Bride!’ (and commented as such to my companions when it ended) as it was clearly there to give the whole thing a specific 1940s look and feel.

I’m old enough to remember when heatsinks used to broadly have the same basic footprint as the CPU socket.

Finally!! A valid use case for generative AI.

The best!

Zavvi have changed their policy on preorders. From now on payment will be taken on order rather than on despatch.

This pretty much means I’ll be doing many more of my disk preorders with HMV going forwards.

They claim this is a policy to prevent bots buying up high demand items - I call bullshit.

Conversely once I had a machine that was insanely overheating and on investigation found the heatsink barely in contact with the CPU and a lot of dried out crumbs of compound crumbling out the side.

Yikes!!!

The SSD itself wouldn’t require its own heatsink - they don’t generally generate much heat.

Heatsinks are buggers. There’s usually a simple locking mechanism, but it’ll probably also be glued on there with dried thermal compound, so you have to be a bit careful. You’d also need some new compound (Arctic Silver et al) to refit the heatsink properly when you’re done.

You shouldn’t need to get your fingers in there though I don’t think. The edge connector should just push in, so your fingers would be at the other end of the SSD.

I’d be extremely surprised if you had to remove your CPU’s heatsink in order to install an M2 SSD. That would be extremely poor motherboard design.